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Firebird related news
FBGrid – CRUD operations for php
Luis wrote on firebird-php : Hi, check the following address [1] where you can download a PHP class that make CRUD operations on a Firebird/Interbase table.
Still needs much work to do …
Suggestions, modifications and corrections are welcome.
Fixed bugs in php – crash on query with errors in params
Thanks to Felipe Pena for fixing many php bugs related to firebird extension . This is an example how bug has been fixed in CVS.
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45373
Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
Mono 2.0 has been released – with Firebird .Net Provider support
Mono’s 2.0 grand release has finally arrived.
See detailed release notes covering both the 2.0 launch and the changes since Mono 1.9.
Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.0 for your platform.
Also you must use Firebird DotNet Provider 2.5 with Firebird 2.1 .
Here are my notes on Ubuntu Intrepid
Firebird backup script
This is my first released backup script for Firebird RDBMS. It automagically search for all Firebird databases from a central directory, uses gfix to validate them, then backup + gzip them to a central backup directory keeping only 5 last successful backups.
It may be used as a cron script to automate Firebird databases backup.
Debian Package of the Day: FlameRobin: A GUI to Administer Firebird/Interbase SQL servers
Article submitted by Anton Kavalenka.
Firebird SQL server is popular because it is free, open, lightweight and secure. Firebird is based on the Interbase SQL server, and can be accessed by the same client libraries.
FlameRobin is a X-platform GUI application that makes the life of Firebird/Interbase admins easier. It’s a very light-weight solution (implemented with wxWidgets) as opposed to Tora, which tries to be universal, but is very huge and takes a while to load. FlameRobin starts almost instantly, but being lightweight doesn’t mean to be poor in features. Some of them are:
fb_mhash 1.2.01 released
fb_mhash is a UDF library for Firebird/Interbase. It implements an interface to the mhash library (libmhash). It support hash, hmac, and key generation algorithms, such as SHA1, MD5, MCRYPT, and S2K_SALTED. It support BLOB data.
Release focus: Minor bugfixes
Changes:
The dependency on the Firebird library was removed.
Running Plastic on Ubuntu and Firebird
What would you think is harder to do? Run a .NET Client/Server application through mono on Linux or install Ubuntu on Microsoft’s Virtual PC?
Here is the long answer
Firebird and Ruby on Rails
On Firebird-tools Pierre Yager asked about Firebird Ruby ActiveRecord Adapter
Does any one knows any project on maintaining an ActiveRecord-Firebird-Adapter?
Firebird 2.1 Domains in PSQL
Mario H. Cornejo wrote in his blog about creating domains in Firebird 2.1